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4000 years of numbers

How did numbers arise? How were they written down? What...

We all have our problems! Mathematicians can be divided into...

In the 8th century Alcuin of York described the wolf...

On 30 May 1832 a young Frenchman named Évariste Galois...

In 1900 the German mathematician David Hilbert presented the mathematical...

A lecture about the past 400 years of geometry at...

Robin Wilson's new book (published by Penguin) is a celebration...

We perceive the world through the processing of information given...

How long is the coastline of Britain? What is a...

A sheikh's will leaves behind 17 camels to be divided...